You are certainly correct the lawyers are probably clamping down on the presenters, and Josh alludes to that but does not come out and say that. it certainly leaves room for the possibility that they are just pulling a boycott, and if that's the case, then they are only hurting the developers. I think what we want to hear is a google rep to say outright that it legally precarious for them to present and that Google has explicitly directed them to pull out. I mean several of those sessions were on my agenda, and we are past the point where refunds would have been offered, so it sucks for me personally. Not like I have any sympathy for Oracle, but its not like Google is some startup DoNoEvil underdog we all need to root for. This is 2 big corporations doing the usual corporate shit with us caught in the middle. Oracle ponied up the money for Java IP, we'd like them to be more open with it, but its Larry, nobody is really surprised. Meanwhile Google tried some cute IP end runs with the Dalvik and now are getting called out. No heroes here. Geez I'm cranky today...
On Aug 29, 12:08 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Hashbrown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cedric - what kind of put down is that? I think his question is > > extremely relevent and appropriate. > > I am sorry if it came out this way, it was certainly not my intention to > disrespect Fabrizio (and I thought I took precautions in the wording of my > initial response to that effect). > > In the US, when a company gets involved in a lawsuit, its employees are > typically told by the management to not even discuss the matter > *internally*. This should give you an idea of what must be going on behind > the walls of Google and Oracle right now and why you are unlikely to see any > kind of collaboration or interaction between these two companies until the > matter is settled. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
